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LLM judge shows precision but lacks accuracy against human ratings

A local large language model used as a judge for evaluating responses demonstrated significant but weak correlation with human ratings, failing to meet the 0.5 Spearman correlation threshold with a score of 0.395. While the model showed strong internal consistency, achieving a repeat-to-repeat variation score well below the 0.75 point threshold, it frequently diverged from human judgments. In one instance, a response rated as extremely helpful by a human received a 'not helpful' score from the judge across all its evaluations, highlighting a critical gap between the judge's precision and its accuracy. AI

IMPACT Highlights the challenges in using LLMs for automated evaluation and the need for careful calibration against human judgment.

RANK_REASON The item details the results of an evaluation of an LLM judge against a human-rated dataset, including statistical analysis and thresholds. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLM judge shows precision but lacks accuracy against human ratings

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Ivan Zdravkov ·

    An honest look at LLM-as-a-judge

    <p>Asked to score the same response five times, a local LLM judge gave the identical answer 36% of the time. Asked to match a human rater's score, it matched only 36% of the time too. The judge is precise. Precision is not accuracy.</p> <p><strong>Key takeaways</strong></p> <ul> …